2011 South Dakota Code
Title 34 PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY
Chapter 35. Range And Forest Fire Prevention
§34-35-5 Harrowing of fireguards--Burning of grass.

34-35-5. Harrowing of fireguards--Burning of grass. To prevent the growth of grass and weeds upon the fireguards, if the township supervisors or board of county commissioners deem it necessary, they shall cause the same to be dragged with a harrow between the first day of July and the first day of September. Not later than the first day of October, or whenever there is any danger from prairie fires, it shall be their duty to cause the grass along the roadway between the fireguards, when there is plowing along both sides of such roadway, to be burned; and a reasonable price shall be paid out of the fireguard fund for such breaking and burning.

Source: SL 1893, ch 91, § 5; RPolC 1903, § 1135; SL 1905, ch 111; RC 1919, § 6132; SDC 1939, § 58.1005.